OSLO (Reuters) - A drive to agree a U.N.
climate pact in Copenhagen in December risks
failure unless world leaders revive bogged-down negotiations at a U.N. summit in
New York on
September 22....

Recriminations
between rich and poor nations about how to share out curbs on greenhouse gas
emissions, and scant aid from recession-hit rich nations, mean the world is far
from a deal. A draft treaty is an unmanageable 200 pages
long.

"Now the onus
is on heads of government," Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Program,
told the Reuters Global Climate and Alternative Energy
Summit. He told
Reuters that a one-day climate summit at U.N. headquarters on September 22 was a
chance to show world leaders that "there is a high risk that a deal will not
emerge from Copenhagen" unless they get more involved in spurring the
negotiations.

And there is a
lot to sort out in the next three months, according to participants in September
8-10 Reuters summit. Brazil's
Environment Minister Carlos Minc told Reuters a plan by U.S. President Barack
Obama -- struggling to secure healthcare reforms before turning to climate -- to
cut U.S. greenhouse emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020 was unacceptably
weak. "We don't
accept that, it's very poor," he said, adding that the goal should be "closer to
something beyond a 20 percent reduction." The U.S. 2020 goal
is the weakest of any developed nation, but Obama promises a deep 80 percent cut
by 2050.